SIMPLE - BORN FROM ANYWHERE ON THE EARTH
-Voices singing from all over the Earth: professional and non-professional
voices, many voices of children, also voices who have never seen written music - So
the music for the One Earth Choir was suggesting it belongs to every culture, it is as new as unexpected - and
simple -
- it should emerge out not from a precise place of the Earth, nor from one
country nor one musical culture, but from anywhere, from any corner of the Earth,
from any forest, river, desert, mountain on the Earth -

THE BEGINNING [bars 1 - 2]
Let us imagine the last minute before the beginning of the singing, let's
imagine all the eyes looking at the hand of the clock marking the last seconds,
the last 10 seconds before the attack -
Then the beginning, two bars of Silence: the deepest sense to be all together
will take Voice -
In that Silent Breath of Music the inner human sense of connection will be
perceivable - the Earth Choir will breathe finally as One -The Earth Choir is
here -

ONE NOTE - [bars 3 - 10]
Then a Note emerges - one only, on the Earth, from the Earth - one, wide,
spread - That sound becomes singing voices - Then a first sketch of harmony
appears -

A MELODY- [bars 14 - 18]
From little towns, and from mountains, from green farmlands, from houses up on
hills, from cities, from rivers and little valleys, voices searching for each
other, imagining each other, deeply knowing each other as human voices from
ever - an empty melody starts to sound - the melody wrote itself by itself -
As it appears, some female sounds emerge full of wonder, and some peaceful male
sounds respond -

The WONDERING - THE ANSWER - [bars 19 - 27]
And from here 'the asking', 'the questoin' is born: the calling - the wonder, the
unexpected, the auspice, the wondering: will someone respond? does something
exist beyond? - the deep knowing that something does exist, but I do not see it
yet, - a sound emerges, a voice sounds, a phenomenon appears, a wave rolls, will
something respond? I here call, is something beyond ? is there someone beyond
the dunes?

Here is a sound, an answer, from the other side of the sea, of the moon -
Now the rhythm of waves going and returning, calling and answering becomes
closer -
And a simple shy harmony emerges -
And a first draft of dialoguing sounds starts - the meeting, the telling of
stories, the mirroring each other, the belonging to a same human feeling, take
colors and dance the voices -

ONE ONLY HUMAN LANGUAGE - A NEW AWARENESS - [bars 39 - 59]
Then, here is a wondering, a proposal: we all can speak together, the same human
language - As imagined, it happens - the same language, together - new orders of
ideas and of spaces, wider eyes, wider angles, wider lightness -
A new awareness on the Earth - With it, now the first melody can come back, but
emerging under a new light -
And what before was horizontal, linear, now becomes vertical, harmonic -

A ONE - [bars 60 - 66]
Now the main melodies can sound all together - the note of one melody lights up
the note of the other melody -
And all the notes of the pentatonic scale [common to many musical cultures] can
sound all together -
Now a scale is no longer the sum of many parts, it is a ONE -

IT DOES NOT NEED TO BE PERCEIVABLE, TO EXIST [bars 67 - 75]
The new awareness is such that all that exists, all the sounds, do not have to
be heard to exist and to be present - Even if we do not perceive the sounds,
they are all now within our memory, in our awareness, they are present in the
wherever, in all space -
the more the awareness has expanded, the more the sounds are everywhere,
perceivable and not -We do not hear them, and they are wherever, in all space -
Only one note remains, on the ground, from the ground: a conscious sound, pure,
which does not need to affirm anything, any longer -
A sound which can dissolve itself in the silent-sound which has been singing
from always within wondering cells in front of the starry vault